We had the privilege this week to be invited to present at both the LA Web Perf Meetup and the NY Web Perf Meetup. Drit was on stage last night in NYC, the topic was “Peeling the Web Performance Onion”. We also wrote a blog about this topic in 2010. The presentation…

Since we launched Catchpoint we have been continuously innovating by listening to our customers needs. We have brought new metrics and data analysis features to help our customers measure and improve their web performance. Coming from IT operations, we understand that operation excellence is based on data analytics, and our goal at…

Last night I had the privilege to present at the LA WebPerf meetup about a topic close to my heart: “Network Latency & Web Latency … Catchpoint the Plumber“. The presentation was a showcase of real life web performance failures captured by our web performance monitoring tool Catchpoint. We covered not only real failures but…

Remember when Ted Stevens, the late Senator, talking about Net Neutrality referred to the internet as a series of tubes ? Even Jon Stewart did a segment on that story. Well our support team troubleshooted an issue this past weekend for one of our customers and, superficially at least, it did indeed look a lot…

I read an article yesterday predicting that the Royal Wedding was going to be a big stress test to the Internet. To observe the impact of the Royal Wedding on the Internet, I decided to monitor some of the popular websites that provided coverage for the Royal Wedding: Yahoo, CNN, Youtube, the Official Site, Facebook, Twitter, BBC, MSNBC &…

A lot has been published already about AWS EC2 failure, I wanted to add my 2 cents on the issue as it reminded me of a notorious event that happened to DoubleClick in August 2000. What AWS and their customers experienced is unfortunate, but it will and it can happen to anyone! In IT we are…

Spring is finally here, although it seems someone in the East Coast just got the memo! This April we also celebrate our 1 year anniversary of launching the Catchpoint Web Performance Monitoring suite. We have had a busy year building solutions to help client with monitoring and optimizing internet based services to provide best…

Looking at the TCP packets transmitted during a webpage load can be quite overwhelming. Here is a very interesting way of visualizing the TCP packet communication when loading the Facebook News Feed webpage utilizing Packet Flight by Carlos Bueno. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/17248120]

In the 1990s the websites were quite simple, served by a single server talking to a single database, JavaScript and Flash had just been introduced, AJAX was being developed, and HTTP 1.0 protocol was prevalent across the World Wide Web. Now, years later and that same webpage has turned into…